Half Apache and mostly orphaned, Edgar Mint's story begins on an Arizona reservation at the age of seven, when the mailman's jeep accidentally runs over his head. Comedy and pain accompany Edgar through a string of larger-than-life experiences.
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"If I could tell you only one thing about my life it would be this: when I was seven years old the mailman ran over my head. As formative events go, nothing else comes close. With these words Edgar Mint, half-Apache and mostly orphaned, makes his unshakable claim on our attentio…
"Chronicles the hopes and heartbreaks of Edgar Presley Mint. The trials of Edgar, half Apache and mostly orphaned, begin on an Arizona reservation at the age of seven, when the mailman's jeep accidentally runs over his head."--Jacket.
With Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami gives us a novel every bit as ambitious and expansive as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, which has been acclaimed both here and around the world for its uncommon ambition and achievement, and whose still-growing popularity suggests that it wi…
"A coming-of-age story set in post-independence Sri Lanka"--
Investigating a disturbing murder involving a billionaire's twin infant daughter, forensic psychiatrist Frank Clevenger suspects that the main suspect, the baby's adopted teen brother, is innocent, and that the other twin is being targeted by the same killer.
Ten years after the end of the Second World War, the town of Rolfen, West Germany, looks just as peaceful and beautiful as ever, until young Peter Liebig discovers a secret about his past that leads him to question everything, including the town's calm facade and his own sense o…
David Copperfield
by Dickens, Charles (, Burgis, Nina
fromOxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
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Young David Copperfield endures hardships as a child laborer in this partly autobiographical classic reflecting social conditions in nineteenth-century England.
David Copperfield
by Dickens, Charles (, Burgis, Nina
fromOxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
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Type: Book
Young David Copperfield endures hardships as a child laborer in this partly autobiographical classic reflecting social conditions in nineteenth-century England.
"This novel of childhood is set in fictional St. Petersburg, a town based on Mark Twains's hometown of Hannibal, Missouri. Twain's recounting of Tom Sawyer's many escapades is by turns nostalgic, satiric, wise, and hilarious. While this novel is often considered mainly as the pr…
An eighty-nine-year-old former detective in rural England becomes involved with a young refugee from Nazi Germany whose sole companion, an African grey parrot, spews out a series of numbers that could hold the key to a dangerous secret. -- Novelist.
An eighty-nine-year-old once-famous detective comes out of retirement when a nine year old mute boy wanders into his life. The boy has escaped Nazi Germany with his sole companion, an African gray parrot, who spews out mysterious strings of German numbers.